Red Letter Press Books

03/18/2025

Be inspired by High Voltage Women past and present!

https://www.redletterpress.org/highvoltagewomen.shtml

02/12/2025

Red Letter Press was very pleased to donate a selection of our publications to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The librarian's request noted, "Given the increasing challenges of book bans and funding freezes affecting academic and public libraries in our region, we are seeking support from publishers who share our commitment to intellectual freedom and access to diverse literature." We are happy to oblige! Here is a photo of the documents in their new home.

09/21/2024

Enjoy this memory from the book launch of Talking Back: Voices of Color at Laurel Books in San Francisco -- opening remarks by the bookstore owner. The anthology, edited and with an introduction by Nellie Wong, is available at www.RedLetterPress.org

09/18/2024

We are honored to have Red Letter Press titles featured on the birthday cake of Nellie Wong at her !!!90th!!! birthday party!

03/08/2024

Much thanks and appreciation to Argentine publisher Zindo & Gafuri Ediciones for their beautiful translation and presentation of Karen Brodine's "Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking." Our copies arrived today! Can't wait to be able to read the new introduction by Argentine feminist poet Gabriela Borrelli Azara.

02/28/2024

We're very excited about the new Argentine edition of Karen Brodine's important feminist poetry collection "Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking." Karen was a leader in Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party and a groundbreaking force for working-class le***an and feminist poetry.

In the prologue to this edition, Gabriela Borrelli Azara, an Argentine feminist poet and abortion rights activist, writes that the poetry "highlights the philosophical body-mind-machine relationship that Brodine establishes and the class dimension that runs through the entire book: 'How does she do it? With humor, with tenderness, demonstrating that work can be a space of joy and abuse at the same time. And above all, a space for creativity that the system tries to overshadow in each of us. ...There is image, there is sound, there is a constant, recurring rhythm that soothes the reader and allows the poem to open the eye of reflection.'”

02/27/2024

Very exciting news! Karen Brodine's book of poetry, "Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking" has been translated into Spanish and published in Argentina and Spain!

Argentine publisher Zindo & Gafuri initiated the project and the dual translations into Argentine and Iberian varieties of Spanish.

Argentine bookstore
https://eternacadencia.com.ar/p/mujer-frente-a-la-maquina-pensando/144717/155103

Spanish publisher Kriller71 Ediciones
https://kriller71ediciones.com/coleccion-poesia/mujer-frente-a-la-maquina-pensando/

Order the English version at http://www.redletterpress.org/womansitting.shtml

01/10/2024

WHY INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE MATTERS by Andrea Bauer. Our latest Red Banner Reader is ready to order at www.RedLetterPress.org!

11/30/2023

Red Letter Press signed the Publishers for Palestine letter. Check out our small pamphlet "Shattered Hopes in Palestine" by Raya Fidel. Addresses the impossibility of a two-state solution. www.redletterpress.org

Join , , , Week: November 29 – December 5, 2023 https://publishersforpalestine.org/2023/11/20/join-readpalestine-week-november-29-december-5-2023/

06/26/2023

It's a great experience to be able to hear Karen Brodine speak this section of her poem "Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking," while reading along with the text. Thanks to Poetry On-Line for this opportunity to make more people aware of Karen's work! Visit our webpage to order the book. (www.redletterpress.org) *Copy and paste this link so that the FB referral doesn't mess up your access.*
https://www.poetry.onl/read/karen-br

Karen Brodine was a poet, typesetter, & activist who broke ground for working-class feminist & le***an poetry in the 1970s and '80s. Her four books: Slow Juggling, Work Week, Illegal Assembly and Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking, explore class, sexuality, language, & labor struggle